Quote Originally Posted by Koga No Goshi View Post
On a more "on topic" note, would the crashes in the stock market serve as sufficient reason for any of the free market ideologues out there to change their mind about social security and/or privatization of all retirement programs? I mean, if you're 40, yeah, you can probably ride this out. But what about the people who are 68 today and had a lot of their money "responsibly" invested and have lost 25% of it in three months?
If you are 68 today and didn’t have your money in a secure place you almost deserve to have lost 25% of it.

I would much rather be in control of my SS than letting the gov put it in the “lockbox”.